Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Boys are rarely told that their virginity is a gift, or indeed that their sexuality is about “giving” something to another person – lightly or not. Boys “get laid”, “get lucky”, “get some”. They “take a girl’s virginity”, “take advantage”; if they’re thoughtful, they “take their time”. Boys are not taught to think of themselves or their virginity as something to be offered up, unwrapped and enjoyed.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
